GPS Leads Truck to Impassable Road for 5 Days

Mine is Betty and she kinda cranky sometimes and sends me the long way..

why mike do ya think side roads in Englad are any narrower than side roads in the usa....only m...... I wont say that I almost called you a moron but your not.....I tend to want to call someone names who calls everone else morons.......does that make me a bad moron??? think things like that it depends where in the usa you are like if your in NEW ENGLAnD, USA all roads are narrow compared to LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA where even side roads are wide so mike I was a truck driver for many years and got stuck on lots of narrow roads but never for 5 days......... the driver could not drive very well and blames his GPS.......great excuse but if he had kept his truck on the road........I once had to back up for 27 miles.....now that was difficult especially since my 1973 freightliner cab over didnt have power steering........I had big arms from steering for 35 years with no power thast why truck drivers use to have to be big and strong just to drive the dang truck.......cya god bless all the morons

JJ,
Typical truckdriver (liar)......... "I'll Bet I can top that story" mentality......"IF" and I do mean "IF" you had to backup 27 miles, what an idiot for getting into such a position........and a bigger idiot for admitting to it!
To many today rely on technology to do the thinking for them, and "wannabee" drivers like JJ just tell tall tales about their "glory days"........LOL
PS,
JJ, I used to deliver heavy equipment to remote jobsites. Many had no turnaround areas so I always backed in drove out rather than driving in and backing out. Much easier to access the front to tow than drag out backward......just a tip from a real trucker

LOL...You beat me to it...I didn't notice, as you did, how many people weren't sure but I did see the 25% and was blown away with not only that they had this as a voting option but that it was used by a quarter of the voting populace. On second thot...maybe I'm not so surprised.

I'm glad someone else noticed that, lol.

exactly what tanker truck has on-star on it? As I recall On-star is a Chevy proprietory product. I am a long distance truck driver and Freightliner, western star, mercedes-benz (all made by Daimler Chrysler (not a chevy product no on star on these driven them all), Peterbilt, Kenworth (paccar products....uhm not made by Chevy so no on-star). Volvo and Mack trucks (these also are not chevy products). International and Sterling trucks (still not a chevy product...still no On-star). Just so you know I've been driving trucks for the las 10 years and I have driven all of the above trucks. A tanker truck is a class 8 heavy duty two piece unit (two piece--truck and trailer that can weigh up to 80000 pounds combined gross weight before needing a special overweight permit. Unless you are insinuating that the driver of the tanker truck was driving a Chevy 3500 pickup truck ( which can only carry about 28000 pounds, I doubt this is the case) Also for On-star to call an emergency service it would have to detect that the vehicle has been in some type of crash...for example the airbag deployed, or the user hit the onstar button...yes button, to alert on star to the event of an emergency. As far as on-star calling about a sinking truck, exactly which one of their on board vehicle sensors measure water....none. I think instead of talking to someone at On-star you might have been getting prank called. As far as GPS navigation units go, Ive been using them for over 5 years now in a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV). Very rarely are they off, it is usually user input error, and the couple of times that it is off it is a common sense issue with the person....for example the GPS says to turn left onto a ramp (when there is a divider and you can't make a left), but instead you need to make a right to get on the ramp. As far as the whole on-star story, well, Exactly when did Chevy make a Class 8 CMV I believe it was way back in late 80's before on-star even existed. Maybe you got a phone call from blond-star I don't know, but I do know this, I haven't seen no Bow-tie Big trucks and Yes Ford and Chevy used to make them, and they were cab-overs (driver sat over top of the engine) instead of the conventionals (truck with a hood) that are built today.

What kind of retard doesn't flag their electric fence that crosses their road? Whay are they the retard. What part of PRIVATE raod did you not understand. They know it is there, that's all they care about. My advice to you, stop driving down private roads.

Obviously you read a GPS as bad as you spell and drive as bad as you write. Plowing headlong through some farmers' cow pasture when stumbling across an electric fence cannot be blamed on the GPS. Hint...roads are smooth black things not green and grassy with dung piles.

Um, he's been in office for, what, 5 weeks? He inherits a crisis center on fire and you're not happy that it's all fixed instantly? And Iraq was the RIGHT road? Your boy had 8 long, long years to get it right and has ruined our world standing and our economy--along with the structure of another country that didn't do anything to us. Not to mention the thousands of killed and maimed US troops and the beheaded civilians. Nice job, Brownie!